The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11
THE WEEKS NEWS.
Recent Events Retold In Brief Para
graphs for the Weekly Sentinel.


presumably by icebergs.
Circleville, Ohio, has struck gas in an old
well bored twelve years ago.
The President gave state dinner to the
Hawaiian Queen Friday evening.
Stropel won the six days walking match
in Philadelphia, making 515 miles.
A soda-water fountain burst at Scranton,
Pa, and killed drug clerk Saturday.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
will be held in Toledo, July 81 and IS.
A Meadville, Pa, doctor has discovered
how to cast, solder and weld aluminium.
The Connecticut House fixed the saloon
license at $500 and $3.50 for beer and wine.
Lafayette, Ind, elected a Democratic
Mayor last week. The first one for many
| years.
The Elmendorf thoroughbred yearliags,
| forty in number, sold near Lexington, KY,
| for $40 225.
Griffith Phillips, engineer, was ground to
| pieces in an ore-crusher at Youngstown,
| Ohio, Friday.
Cashier Keith, of the bank at Elkton,
| OAK, is charged with robbery, and the
bank is closed.
David Burke and Con Ryan fought an
impromptu duel at Kingston, n. Mex, and
| Burke was killed.
JEFF Davis has written review Of Gen.
eral Wolseley's Life Of General Lee" for
New Orleans paper.
The canning department of the Dahin
| (Pa.) powder works blew up Saturday, kill
| ing one employee.
The Connecticut house has passed bill
making women eligible to election on Dis
| trict School Boards.
The Michigan House passed bill pro-
Il a.
the new liquor laws.
| Charles K. Gains, a blind man, was con-
/ victed of murder in the second degree at
| TIfin, Ohio, last week.
The total number of persons known 10
have lost their lives in the burned mines at
Naniamo, B. c., is 1S9.
Maurice B. Morey, seventeen years old,
was killed by lightning while asleep in bed
at Binghampton, N. Y.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland will lect-
| ure on American History" in New York
school for young ladies.
/ F. NJ. White, for fifteen years president
| Of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad,
died at Memphis Thursday,
Senator Sherman says there can be no
truth In the story that party of bandits
planned to capture him in Cuba.
Two little children in New York were
poisoned with highly colored candy, in the
coloIing of which arsenic was found.
Ninety acres of land near Wyandotte,
Kan, has been purchased by a syndicate of
Kansas City capitalists for S. 900 an acre.
Grottkau, the Anarchist, recently con-
victed in Milwaukee, was sentenced to one
year hard labor in the House of Correc-
ton.
Cashier Knowlton, of the VIII County
(Kas.) Bank, has resigned and removed to
Canada. There is shortage of from $751;
| 600 to 500 900 in the funds of the institu-
ton.
Mrs. Ida Anthony, of Plain6eld, N. j.,
has sued Miss Jeanette Ballou for $50, 900
damages for alternating her husbands af-
fections.
| DR.. Edward Knox, of Fentress County,
Tennesses, whipped his son so severely with
q black-snake whip that he died. The
father has disappeared.
The West Virginia Legislature last week
elected Charles James Faulkner Senator.
He is forty years of age, and Circuit Court
Judge of Berkeley County.
Twelve men were killed by the premature
explosion of blast at Cross Tunnel, on
the Goodwater Extension of the Georgia
Central Railroad, last week.
John w. Lewis, colored letter-carrier
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for twelve years, was arrested for robbing
the mails and pleaded guilty.
At Bardstown, ILL.,, last Friday, John
Boston was shot and killed by Lewis Rim
ing. Boston had been slandered by Rim
iDg's wife, and sought retraction.
Recent interviews with all the members
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature show fifty
in favor of Clevelands denomination, ten
for Hill and eleven non-committal.
A bill was introduced into the Canadian
Parliament embodyiDg some Of the provis-
ions of the interstate commerce law, nota-
bly, the long and short haul features.
Cora Sullivan, daughter of wealthy
citizen of Montgomery County, Missouri,
suicided with choral last week. She left
note sa ying she was possessed OF devil.
Mrs. John Eromer shot and killed her
husband in his brothers saloon in Green's
burg Saturday. She attempted to kill her.
self, but was prevented. Domestic unhap-
piness was the cause.
| w. G. DeDauw, who endowed the De-
PAW University of Indiana, was stricken
with apoplexy in Chicago Wednesday
night and died Thursday. He was buried
Monday at New Albany.
Violent earthquake shocks were felt in
Arizona and Southern California last week.
Volcanic eruptions are reported at differ
ent points. A lake near Tombstone, Ariz.,
was dried in few minutes.
The sale of Runnymede and Cold Stream
thoroughbred yearlings, at Lexington last
week, was probably the most successful
sale Of the kind ever made in Kentucky.
The average was 81 ,66S a head.
Antonio Gatz, an Italian about twenty
SIX years of age, who resided at Honey
Brook, a town several miles south of Hazel
ton, Pa was stilettoed at the latter place.
There is no clew to the murderer.
| Egmont, the sensational four year-old at
the Nashville race meeting, is reported to
be sold to the Dryer Brothers, of Brook
Ign. for $4,000. He was bought as year
ling at the Belle Meade sale for 1915.
1t is reported that Clay & Woodfo-d, of
Fayette County. Kentucky, have been Of
fered $100,000 for their thoroughbred STALL
ion, Hindoo, conditioned on his living four
years. The offer, if made, was refused.
Mr.. J. G.. Clark, of Worcester, Mass. an
nounced to the incorporators of Clark
University, to be established through his
liberality, that he intends to make further
gifts to the amount of about $2,000,0 900.
In q quarrel at Jackson, Miss, r. s..
Gambrell and Colonel Jones s. Hamilton
fired at each other simultaneously, and
both were killed. The trouble was about
an article in paper edited by Gambrell.
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